DragCon has become a huge event in the three years since its debut, and 2018 is shaping up to be even bigger. But as thousands of drag fans descend on the Los Angeles Convention Center for the three-day extravaganza in May, there is one Drag Race crown holder that fans will definitely not be seeing.

Tyra Sanchez, the winner of season two, has been banned from the convention after she posted a video attacking fellow season two queen Tatianna and season 4’s Phi Phi O’Hara with threats of violence.

The video, which was originally shared on Instagram, was reshared by Phi Phi via Twitter:

It ends now, THIS isn't a person who should represent a brand like @RuPaulsDragRace

This isn't how any decent human acts. This is someone unstable & needs help. @RuPaulsDragCon she shouldnt be allowed to attend

In the video, Sanchez says, “But when you see Ms. Phi Phi and Ms. Mother F*cking Tati’s ass stretched out on the motherf*cking ground, you will know it was me. Yeah, I may not have physically did it, but it will be my doing. Remember that sh*t, bi*ch.”

Tyra responded by posting an email she received from World of Wonder, the production company behind Drag Race and DragCon, that stated she could participate in the event if she recorded a “sincere public apology” that denounces violence.

The email also references another video Tyra recorded: “We received your video, but unfortunately the apology is not clear.”

In an emailed reply that Tyra shared in the same post, she wrote back to World of Wonder:

“I will not be apologizing again for something that happened last month. I apologized then for my anger, my temper, my behavior and my choice of words. Multiple times I have stated that violence is not the answer and that queens of my upbringing sometimes express ourselves different than most,” Sanchez wrote. “I understand you may not understand this as you have only appropriated our lives, our attitudes and our mannerisms.

You can continue to push your narrative that I’m some angry black queen, but you and I know that is simply untrue. If you want to remove me from DragCon because of some drag queen drama then by all means remove me.”

Per your request RuPaul's DragCon, RuPaul & World of Wonder Productions I am very much publicly posting this to all of my social media platforms. #SorryNotSorry

“Everyone wants to tiptoe around the bulls*t but I refuse. She was nasty back in 2009 and she still nasty now that’s why she can’t get a f*cking gig… Anytime she crawls out of her hole it’s to get attention in the worst way.

Oh she was banned from dragon? She didn’t have anyone coming there to see her anyways. She is the least respected or liked winner from any of the f*cking seasons and that’s The f*cking T”

Ummmm Yeah

Hillers

“[Q]ueens of my upbringing sometimes express ourselves different than most,” but it’s DragCon that’s pushing the “narrative that I’m some angry black queen?” I mean, you can’t have it both ways, Tyra. And you can’t threaten violence and then issue some backhanded apology.

howardmarc

QJ201

I think Ru was trying to help Tyra with the win… and what has Ms. Thang done since season 2? been a trainwreck with more run ins with the law than any contestant ever on the show… and was this b*tch actually prepping a a blunt in that vid?

DCguy

Most of the blogs agree with you.

April 12, 2018 at 9:04am

Brian

What a moron. The queens get something like $50 a pop from fans for meet and greets, and people wait in long lines for hours to do it. Even the less popular queens must walk away with a few thousand bucks for a day’s work, the bigger queens can probably make $20K+ for the weekend.

hkgjefe1

Roan

It’s a lot of drama that Tyra seems to be the source of it. Ironically, Raven is the one person ignoring all of it, but the other queens are jumping in and the entire mess perpetuates. They just need to ignore her.

April 12, 2018 at 8:04am

Roan

You are a despicable person. You will receive no further attention from me. Dismissed.

Umoja

Cylest Brooks

Yes, I will be doing some banning soon and Curtis359 is on my list. Until then, I’ll just have to keep deleting.

April 12, 2018 at 12:04am

DCguy

In spite of everything else, Tyra seems to have done the one gigantic thing NOTHING else could ever accomplish…..

She made Phi Phi seem not like the bad guy in a conflict. That is some MAJOR spell she cast.

As for Season 2, I never could figure out how Raven or JuJuBe didn’t win that season. The first two seasons I think Ru chose who she wanted and started getting a LOT of flack and I think that producers stepped in finally and said you can’t just keep picking people who shouldn’t have won.

Xzamilloh

Regardless of what Tyra has done with her win after she won, she deserved the crown based on her performance… Raven and Juju both had a second chance with the first AS1 and still lost, so it’s not like this was just a momentary thing. And furthermore, if you’re right about the producers, they are on some BS because the last two winners had incredibly weak records compared to other queens who should have won. Sasha SLAYED that lip sync, but I will never see her as the deserving winner of Season 9, but it was a mediocre season so why not cap it off with a mediocre winner.

April 12, 2018 at 8:04pm

DCguy

I don’t really agree, Tyra didn’t show a range, and she couldn’t speak on mike. She had good looks for the runway, but imagine her in the new format with more acting challenges, she would have gone out by the 3rd episode.

As for All Stars 1. That team format was ridiculous.

April 13, 2018 at 10:04am

Brian

All Stars 1 was pretty much created to give Chad Michaels a crown. Raven and Juju never had a chance.

April 13, 2018 at 11:04am

maurice_tisdale

It’s easy for people to come for Tyra Sanchez but she was only ‘ADVOCATING’ for herself/himself. I’m a BIG fan of RPDR but there are ‘POLITICS’ involved since Season 1 and it instantly turned me off a few seasons ago but every now and again, I watch and get a bit of a boost from the contestants because most are FIERCE but aren’t THE MOST FABULOUS QUEENS I SEEN in my life. I’m a Black Queen (45 and still KILLING THEM) and I can’t lie, I’m always down for ‘MY PEOPLE’ (POC: “PEOPLE OF COLOR”) 1st and as horrible as that might read or be, it’s my truth. When I watch scandalous contestants come on and try to throw out ‘THE RACE CARD’, and all I can think is “YOU FUCK RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!” There were times I would read someone referring to someone as “an ape” come on people. As much as I love RU, worship that ‘RICH BITCH’, you must know that she would have to do what it took as a BLACK QUEEN for decades to come up and be THE FIERCEST QUEEN on this planet. Sometimes she/he had to be-little other QOC (QUEENS OF COLOR) and that sucks but remember RU was the 1st Queen of Color to hold a title in NYC……….In honor of Crystal LaBeija (RIP) and all the QOC……”I’m going to show my COLOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Tyra, is and has been “FIERCE” since DAY 1 and most people rode her ass because they claimed she was a BEYONCE (QUEEN BEY) clone, groupie and just doing Beyonce but Tyra “Da’ OG” of Drag Race was doing it BIG when no one was, making sure BEYONCE’ was FRESH AND SO DAMN CLEAN. Cut to one season prior and the winner, and FIERCE-ASS “BeBe Z.” was crucified for being THE ONLY AFRICAN QUEEN ON THE PLANET BUT WON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Listen, if you don’t advocate for yourself, no one is going to……….. I love the LGTBQ community because I’m a member and cardholder since the 70’s but there are ‘RACIAL SHIT’ that doesn’t make sense but is there and nothing I can do but love ‘da’ WHITE BOYS AND GIRLS’ when they show me love. You must know how I love my Latin brothers and sisters when they show me love, and love my ASIAN sisters and brothers but when something JUMPS OFF and they are “going in” on BLACK FOLKS within the community HUNTY, THERE IS NOTHING FURTHER IN MY HEAD THEN “FLATLINE” everyone else!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! People don’t just call you a “NIGGER”, which most people can’t spell or know the “THE TRUE MEANING” but they then want to go in and make sure you feel the heat of every vernal disease known…………..When AIDS/HIV was 1st having this rise within the LGTBQ community it was riding on the shoulders of POC and especially BLACK MEN…………..It was ‘ALLEGED’ that ‘African Men’ were having sex with APES and then having sex with one another and some ‘lone’ White Airline Stewart (he was alleged to be “HOT, Gay and a THOT” a.k.a. getting “BUSY” with everyone) would meet some on the “DL” AFRICANS while porting on one of his many INTERNATIONAL stops/PORTS.
His ‘promiscuous nature’ would end up making him “THE GRANDFATHER of AIDS”… It was a nightmare being GAY during that time when AIDS/HIV was something that know one knew about, THANK GOD, JESUS AND THE HOLY GHOST, for “ACT UP AND all THE ORGANIZATIONS that weren’t afraid to ADVOCATE for themselves and others………………You must know that being a GAY PERSON OF COLOR was an AUTOMATIC “BULL’S EYE” on YOU …………Especially if you were BLACK in USA and if you were a guy ‘liking’ and ‘loving’ MEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Okay, its a “History lesson” from ME, yet I felt like I was helping and LOVING AND LIKING TYRA, who was always authentic and always her/himself………. A YOUNG, GORGEOUS (IN DRAG AND OUT OF DRAG) PERFORMER………..